Am 2008-05-17 15:35:33, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > One thing that I find rather hard to justify is that even on an Etch system > installed from scratch just a few weeks ago, /etc/pam.d/common-password has > password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 > so I can be confidently entering my 200 character uber password thinking > that it is hacker proof, when all the time debian is truncating it to > eight characters... :-/
With "md5" the setting "max=" us useless since Woody.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
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